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Arts, culture and heritage grants in South West

Grants made 23 Oct 2025 to 23 Oct 2026 by UK trusts and foundations that publish through 360Giving to charities registered for arts, culture and heritage with a registered address in South West.

70grants
£1.8mtotal awarded
£5,000median grant
16funders

Top funders

Trusts and foundations that gave the most to arts, culture and heritage charities in South West in the last 12 months. Names link to their free funder profile where we have one.

FunderGrantsTotalMedian
Wolfson Foundation4£450k£100k
Barnwood Trust5£414k£99k
Garfield Weston Foundation4£260k£40k
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation1£200k£200k
Devon Community Foundation19£146k£5,000
Quartet Community Foundation24£139k£4,998
The Clothworkers Foundation1£75k£75k
The Fore1£45k£45k
The Veterans' Foundation2£40k£20k
The Three Guineas Trust1£10k£10k

Open and recurring programmes

Funder programmes behind these grants that have made grants in at least two years, so are likely to run again. Check each funder's website for current deadlines.

ProgrammeFunderGrants (12 months)Years with grantsLatest grant
Express GrantQuartet Community Foundation82023 to 20262 Mar 2026
DCC Food Fuel and MoreDevon Community Foundation62022 to 20265 Feb 2026
Catalyst GrantQuartet Community Foundation52023 to 202624 Mar 2026
Donor Advised GrantQuartet Community Foundation42023 to 20263 Dec 2025
Arts and HumanitiesWolfson Foundation32018 to 20263 Dec 2025
CLASP Communities: Local Action on Suicide PreventionDevon Community Foundation22022 to 202626 Mar 2026
WelfareGarfield Weston Foundation22017 to 202620 Mar 2026
Small GrantsBarnwood Trust22023 to 20265 Mar 2026
StandardThe Veterans' Foundation22023 to 202618 Dec 2025
PCC Safer CommunitiesDevon Community Foundation22023 to 202611 Dec 2025

Open government schemes charities can apply for

21 open schemes on Find a Grant covering South West in related sectors (live Grant Radar list). The 5 closing soonest:

SchemeFunderGrant sizeCloses
DCMS Place-Based Philanthropy Community of PracticeDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport£996k to £997k9 Nov 2026
Unlocking advanced capabilities in conservation and heritage science (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council£500k to £1.5m25 Nov 2026
Long-term cultural and sporting events legacy (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council£1.1m to £1.3m1 Dec 2026
Attendance and engagement at UK sporting, cultural and heritage sites (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council£1.1m to £1.3m1 Dec 2026
Gambling harms research grants (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Medical Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council£1 to £2m8 Dec 2026

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Source: grants data published by each funder through 360Giving (GrantNav), grants awarded 23 Oct 2025 to 23 Oct 2026 to registered charities, companies and other organisations (grants to individuals are left out). Cause and region come from the recipient charity's entry on the Charity Commission register (its registered charitable purposes and the postcode area of its registered address), so cause and region snapshots cover recipients registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Open government schemes are from Find a Grant (UK Government) via Grant Radar. "Recurring" programmes have grants in at least two calendar years. Figures are our own summary.

Licences: each funder publishes its data under its own open licence; we use only data licensed CC BY 4.0, CC0 or the Open Government Licence. Data from Allen Lane Foundation, Benefact Trust, CHK Foundation, Community Foundation North East, Devon Community Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Essex Community Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, Making a Difference Locally, Quartet Community Foundation, The Clothworkers Foundation, The Fore, The Three Guineas Trust, The Veterans' Foundation, Wolfson Foundation: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Data from Barnwood Trust: Creative Commons Zero (CC0 1.0). Contains public sector information from the Charity Commission for England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Find a Grant: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Last updated: 23 October 2026. Information only, not funding advice; check each funder's own guidance before applying. Brightbench is not connected to these funders.